Ill meet you out back.

( just kidding )

Thu Nov 27 2025 04:05:48 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

Sorry Nurb - the Atari ST is more like an 8 bit than a 16 bit machine. Like a C-64 with GEOS. 

 

 

it sounds familiar. But just vaguely.   Did they also do mail-order or just stores? 

Thu Nov 27 2025 04:19:21 UTC from ParanoidDelusions

Did you guys have GEMCO? 

Just stores. Membership - you had to buy a card for a buck. 

Thu Nov 27 2025 15:22:20 UTC from Nurb432

it sounds familiar. But just vaguely.   Did they also do mail-order or just stores? 

 

FreeBSD 15 is out.  and supposedly even more wifi support..  i should dig out one of the couple of spares i kept  ( most were jettisoned ), and try it.

I loved it. Big old plastic green screen terminal with a detachable monster mechanical keyboard with a telephone style cord. 

I wish I had never sold my old machines. 

Sat Nov 29 2025 22:30:07 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

So I eventually got a MIC-504 with an ADDS viewpoint terminal
running legitimate CP/M - because... for REAL CP/M - you needed
a REAL CP/M machine. 

Oooooh, the Viewpoint 60 terminal ... I had one of those too. It was with me through three or four different unix machines. Some of the code written through it is almost certainly still running here.

I didn't sell my old terminals, I ran them until they eventually broke.  I had a VP60 and a Z-19.

I was constantly using my last generation to fund my next generation. I didn't do that with my Amiga 2000 - I just sold it because it was a huge, heavy, currently useless box that never got used anymore. That was also a mistake. :) 

Sat Dec 06 2025 18:20:10 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

I didn't sell my old terminals, I ran them until they eventually broke.  I had a VP60 and a Z-19.

 

Totally agree.  I think we need a team, commanded by Paul Kersey, to start taking care of problems.

FFS.  Schestowitz is a Stalllmanite and just as GNU/Boneheaded. Ubuntu may have more corporate ties now but the article is wrong, it really was so much better and polished and usable than anything else back in 2011.

That is a shame.

I thought it was Linus himself who supported this decision, and might have been his idea to be 'inclusive of rust'.

FreeBSD 15 out. Might be an option for many.

Tue Dec 16 2025 02:25:37 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar Subject: Re: New Linux Patch Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay

Yeah. The patch made it in, and no one is quite sure who decided that the Rust cancer in the kernel would be permanent.

Rust is a hate group masquerading as a programming language.

The kernel additions are known to have bugs and missing features. And somehow they're ok with that. The last time I saw anything like this it was when everyone pretended that the covid jab was "safe and effective".